Associated Press
Voters in Indiana haven’t backed a Democratic presidential candidate in nearly 16 years. But when Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the solidly Republican state on Wednesday, she’ll speak to a constituency she hopes will turn out for her in massive numbers in November: women of color.
Just three days after launching her bid for the White House following President Joe Biden’s departure from the race, Harris will address the biennial gathering of the historically Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
It’s a moment for Harris, a woman of Black and South Asian descent, to speak to a group already excited by her historic status as the likely Democratic nominee and one that her campaign hopes can expand its coalition. In a memo released on Wednesday, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon pointed to support among female, nonwhite and younger voters as critical to success.
“Where Vice President Harris goes, grassroots enthusiasm follows,” O’Malley Dillon wrote. “This campaign will be close, it will be hard fought, but Vice President Harris is in a position of strength — and she’s going to win.”
Still, Democrats face challenges as the country is nursing frustrations over higher prices following a spike in inflation, while former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, survived a recent assassination attempt that further energized his already loyal base. But the memo was more optimistic than the narrow path the campaign saw after the 81-year old Biden delivered a disastrous debate performance in June.
While the campaign will keep emphasizing what it calls its Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to get the needed 270 electoral votes, Harris hopes to be competitive in North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Trump has generally run stronger with white voters who do not hold a college degree. AP VoteCast, a comprehensive survey of voters and nonvoters that aims to tell the story behind election results, found that group composed 43% of all voters in 2020 and Trump won them by a margin of 62% to 37%, even though overall he lost the election.
For Democrats, Black women would likely make a fundamental difference in November, and Harris has already shown signs of galvanizing their support.
In the 2020 election, AP VoteCast found that Black women were just 7% of the electorate. But 93% of them voted for Biden, helping to give him narrow victories in states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
After Harris announced her candidacy, roughly 90,000 women Black women logged onto a video call Sunday night for her campaign — a sudden show of support for an alumni of Howard University and sister in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority who has made Beyonce’s song “Freedom” her walk-on music at events.
Harris will follow her Indiana trip by going to Houston to speak at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers, which endorsed Harris’ candidacy on Monday.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
16 comments
Kamala is Brat🌴🥥
July 24, 2024 at 8:19 am
I’m hoping that an executive summary outlining each disturbing chapter of the 1000 page TRUMP CONTRACT WITH AMERICA PROJECT 2025 can be posted on the DNC website and every morning a portion is narrated by Harris’s VP pick and others on Kamala’s White House staff. Otherwise, most Americans will never get into the details.
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rbruce
July 24, 2024 at 10:19 am
Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation publication. You are lying to say Pres. Trump has anything to do with it. Provide any evidence of Pres. Trump’s acceptance of Project 2025.
Ninety Three
July 24, 2024 at 11:41 am
Demo zombies and the zombie press tell lies and cover for incompetence. They will cover for Ka Mana too when the dirt comes out and the honeymoon ends.
rick whitaker
July 26, 2024 at 4:45 pm
howler monkey, how could you have it all wrong ? kamala is going to be a great president. sit back and enjoy. quit howling so much, your embarrassing yourself.
Not Woke
July 24, 2024 at 8:28 am
Keeping it easy for Ka Mana. Focus on talking to sorority girls, Kalifornian’s, and Democrats. The fake media will protect her like they protected Joe. Let’s see Ka Mana defend her record
Michael K
July 24, 2024 at 8:47 am
Ninety thousand people on a call just hours after Biden stepped down and she stepped up. She’s raised $250 million since Sunday.
Sure looks like momentuum to me. Grassroots. “we, the people” not “only I.” And she’s only three days in.
You know there’s ketchup on the walls of Mar a lago.
Tom
July 24, 2024 at 9:16 am
I must admit that I was getting awful close to staying home this election but now that joe has dropped out and kamala has stepped in, I’m way more optimistic. Hopefully she’ll pick a good VP and step up to meet the moment while trump and vance flounder around calling people names and denying their support of project 25.
Delta Kappa Epsilon
July 24, 2024 at 9:51 am
Zombie Leadership meeting yesterday. Okay guys we have to go nice and easy on Ka Mana. Rather than have her at Netanyahu”s address to Congress let’s get her out of town and give a talk to some seniority girls. They can laugh and giggle and share stories about their boyfriends. That’s right up Ka Mana’s alley.
Michael K
July 24, 2024 at 11:04 am
Miss Spoke with persona #93.
Ninety Three
July 24, 2024 at 11:25 am
Words of wisdom from a guy that would shake his Pelosi pom poms if the zombie force nominated a blow up doll
Tom
July 24, 2024 at 12:05 pm
And you picked trump. You know what they say about stones and glass houses.
Ninety Three
July 24, 2024 at 12:18 pm
I didn’t pick him. I wanted someone else but will certainly vote for him. Just like you would vote for 84 year old Pelosi if the zombie force put her up.
rbruce
July 24, 2024 at 10:22 am
VP Harris is a segregationist. DEI policies should force sorority to embrace male, non-black females and all those who don’t want to be male or female.
Michael K
July 24, 2024 at 2:28 pm
Oh dear. Do you listen to yourself? Did you not see the memo from House leaders to Republican Congress people telling them NOT to be racist and sexist because it makes them and the cult look, you know, like irgnorant morons? Look it upin Politico. Amazing that they have to be told this in 2024. No wonder they are losing.
Ninety Three
July 24, 2024 at 2:52 pm
But it’s okay for Joy Reid to spew her racist talk. Let me ask you this, if Trump would have addressed his Sec of Def as “The black man” how do you think the zombie force and media would have reacted?
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